Record crowds visit new Ashmolean

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Inside the new-look Ashmolean

More than 22,000 people visited the newly opened Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology in Oxford at the weekend.

The final visitor numbers were 13,741 on Saturday between 1000 GMT and 2200 GMT and 9,161 on Sunday between 1000 GMT and 1800 GMT.

About 3,000 people visited the museum in the first two hours of it reopening.

The UK's oldest public museum reopened on Saturday after a £61m redevelopment to double the gallery space.

The renovation features 39 new galleries, including four temporary exhibition galleries, a new education centre, conservation studios and a rooftop restaurant.